2025-07-05 03:52:38The air was cold.
Dust floated in the still room, lit only by the flickering light above. The smell of burnt wires and rust hung heavy, choking the silence. On the cracked floor, a young man slowly stirred.
His name was Jonah.
Jonah groaned and turned his head. Everything ached. His fingers twitched. His arms were heavy. But most of all, he was confused.
He opened his eyes slowly. The ceiling spun. Why am I still alive?
He remembered stepping on those wires. He remembered the jolt, sharp, blinding pain. Then, nothing. Blackness.
He shouldn’t be breathing. He shouldn't be alive.
But he was. The wires had carried thousands of volts. No one should survive that. Yet here he was. Sitting up. Breathing. Alive.
His heart raced as he looked down at his hands. They were trembling, but not burnt. No blood. No sign of injury. His chest rose and fell with each breath, shaky but strong.
Something wasn’t right. He stood up, slowly, and winced. Then he paused.
Why does my body feel so light?
It wasn’t normal. He felt quicker, stronger, but it was also scary. Like something had changed deep inside him, something he couldn’t explain.
And then he remembered something else, the voice.
Before he lost consciousness, just before everything went black, he had heard a voice. A woman’s voice. Calm and strange. She had said something about… a system?
Jonah looked around the room. “Hello?” he called, his voice hoarse. “Is anyone there?”
Silence.
He walked slowly, his boots crunching broken glass on the ground. His eyes scanned every corner. There was no one. Just the dim light, the cracked walls, and the heavy air.
“Who was that voice?” he whispered. “Where did she go?”
There was no answer.
His axe lay on the floor near the wall. He picked it up, gripping the handle tightly. It gave him comfort, even if it felt small in his hands now. Too small.
He pushed open the metal door and stepped into the hallway. The air outside was colder. The halls were dark and empty, but he could hear something, a soft groan, a scratch, maybe even a breath.
He wasn’t alone.
Jonah crouched low and crept forward, his eyes sharp. Something was wrong. Too quiet.
Then he stopped. His breath caught.
Five zombies were standing at the end of the hallway.
They weren’t moving. Not yet. Their eyes were pale and lifeless. Their skin hung like wet rags. They looked like statues, frozen in place.
Why haven’t they noticed me?
Jonah held his breath and took a step back.
Suddenly, clang!
His axe slipped and hit the floor with a sharp, loud clang. It echoed through the hall.
The zombies twitched. Then they turned.
All five heads snapped toward him.
“No…” Jonah whispered.
The zombies snarled and charged.
He dove for the axe and grabbed it. Just then, a wave of power surged through his body. His muscles tensed, his blood rushed. This wasn’t adrenaline. It was something else. Something stronger.
One of the zombies reached for his throat, but Jonah moved faster.
CRACK!
He brought the axe down hard and split the zombie’s skull clean in two. Blood sprayed. The body dropped.
He turned and swung again. Another one down. And again. And again.
He didn’t stop. His body moved like it knew what to do.
Within seconds, the hallway was silent again. The five zombies lay in a bloody heap.
Jonah stood over them, breathing hard. But he didn’t feel tired. Not at all.
“What… what just happened?” he asked himself. His hands were still holding the axe, but it wasn’t shaking. It felt natural. Like an extension of his arm.
Was it the axe? he wondered.
He stared at it. But it looked ordinary. Worn. Bloodstained. Not magical.
Then, he heard the voice again.
“System Host: Level Up. Strength increased.”
Jonah froze.
It wasn’t a woman this time. It was a clear voice in his head. Calm. Robotic.
“Who said that?” he shouted, looking around. “Who are you? Show yourself!”
“I am the voice of the System you now control.”
Jonah’s breath caught.
There was something inside him. Something alive. It was speaking to him.
“What are you talking about? What system? What did you do to me?” His heart was racing now. “Am I going crazy?”
“You are not crazy. You are the host of the Slayer System. You awakened it through the Catalyst, your refusal to die.”
Jonah staggered back.
The wires. His near-death. His will to survive. That was the Catalyst?
“Wait… Does this mean I have powers?” he asked, his voice shaky. “Am I… different now?”
“You are beyond human limits. Each zombie you slay increases your level. With each level comes greater strength, speed, and skill.”
He couldn’t believe it. But deep down, he knew it was true. He had changed.
“How many did I kill just now?” he asked quietly.
“Five. You are now Level 6. Title: Amateur Zombie Slayer.”
“Level 6…” Jonah looked down at his hands. They looked the same, but they weren’t. He felt the difference.
He clenched his fists and smiled faintly. “So… if I keep fighting, I keep getting stronger?”
“Correct.”
He nodded slowly. “Then maybe… maybe I can survive this.”
But then, a scream shattered his thoughts.
“Help us! Please! Anyone!”
It was a woman’s voice. Muffled. Panicked. From somewhere nearby.
Jonah turned toward the sound. “There are still people in this building,” he whispered.
His eyes narrowed. He gripped his axe tightly. “I need to help them.”
He started running down the dark hall, ready for whatever came next.
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“That is exactly what I want,” Silas replied coldly. “The giant’s power comes from his desire to protect his camp. If we wipe the camp off the map entirely, his heart will break. His power will fail. He will be easy to harvest.”Silas’s voice grew louder. It was filled with cruel, terrible excitement. “Alpha Unit,” Silas called out over the radio. “Are you connected to this channel?”A new voice answered. But it was not a normal voice. It was a deep, guttural, vibrating roar. It sounded like a massive beast trying to speak human words through a throat full of blood and broken glass.“I... AM... AWAKE...” the terrible voice rumbled. The sound was so awful that Elena covered her ears.“Alpha Unit,” Silas ordered smoothly. “You will take a heavy strike team. You will take the heavy armor transports. You will go to the Sanctuary of the First Seed.
Chapter 582
Jonah understood. He reached out his massive right hand. The thick iron scars on his skin were dark and quiet.He closed his eyes. He thought about the danger his family was in. He forced the Undying Will skill to wake up just a tiny bit.A faint, freezing silver light began to glow on his fingertips.Jonah pressed his glowing silver finger directly against the exposed wires of the black box. He was acting as a living battery. He pushed a tiny drop of his pure, kinetic energy into the machine.The black box reacted violently.Bright purple and silver sparks exploded into the air. The black box shook on the table. The purple magic fought against Jonah’s silver light. It was a battle of computer codes inside the wires."Hold it steady, giant!" Lisa yelled over the loud buzzing sound. "I am breaking their encryption!"Lisa’s fingers flew across the dials of the old military radio. She
Chapter 581
Thick, dark purple wires stuck out of the black box. The wires were pushed deep into the white bone, connecting the machine directly to where the assassin's brain used to be.On the front of the black metal box, a tiny, sick purple light blinked very slowly."It is a cybernetic implant," Jonah said softly. His deep voice filled with a cold, terrible dread. "General Silas did not just give his soldiers magical guns. Silas put the magic directly inside their heads."Kevin shivered. He looked at the blinking purple light. "The man was a machine, Dad. Silas turned him into a robot."Jonah reached out his massive hand. He gently took the piece of bone and the black box from his son.The tiny purple light blinked again."It is still working," Jonah said. He turned the box over in his thick fingers. "It survived the explosion because it is made of compressed Mana. It is a piece of the System.""But w
Chapter 580
The morning sun tried to shine. It was very weak. The pale light pushed through the falling gray ash and the thick white snow.Jonah walked up the steep mountain path. His heavy boots crunched loudly in the deep snow.The storm was finally over. The howling whiteout blizzard had stopped. The air was perfectly, totally silent. But it was still freezing cold.Jonah wore a thick, dark winter coat he had taken from the broken trucks. He left it open at the chest. The thick, dark iron scars on his skin were cold now. The bright silver fire from the Undying Will had faded away. He was just a giant human man again.He held his massive, forty-pound iron sledgehammer in his right hand. The weapon was not fused to his arm right now. He had commanded the magic to let go. He wanted to hold it like a normal tool.Kevin walked right beside him. The young giant held his custom-made iron mace. His one good eye looked around the quiet, froze
Chapter 579
The silver beam tore across the dark valley. It cut a massive, perfectly clear tunnel straight through the screaming whiteout blizzard. It moved faster than light. It turned the falling snow into hot, dry vapor instantly.Two miles away, on top of the rusted water tower. Unit 4 was looking through his broken scope.The assassin had watched his perfect, explosive bullet hit the giant. He expected to see the concrete building shatter. He expected to see the giant fall to his knees and weep.Instead, the assassin saw the giant catch the bullet.Unit 4’s robotic, emotionless brain froze. The magical System inside his head could not process the data.[ERROR. PHYSICS VIOLATION DETECTED.][TARGET HAS ABSORBED LETHAL PAYLOAD.]The assassin saw the giant turn around. He saw the giant point the glowing iron hammer directly at him.Unit 4 did not have time to run. He did not have time to
Chapter 578
A normal human brain cannot even process a thought in zero point four seconds. A normal human eye cannot even see a supersonic bullet flying through the air.But Jonah was no longer just a normal human. He and his weapon were one single, perfect, living machine powered by absolute love.Jonah did not think. He did not calculate. He simply moved. His reflexes were instantaneous.Jonah spun his massive body around. He faced the concrete building.The glowing purple bullet screamed through the air. It entered the courtyard. It was only ten feet away from the thick concrete wall. It was a blinding, hot streak of death.Jonah stepped directly into the path of the bullet. He swung his massive right arm. He swung the forty-pound iron sledgehammer like a baseball bat. He did not swing it wildly. He swung it with microscopic, flawless, impossible precision.The heavy, flat iron head of the hammer moved through the
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